%0 Manuscript %A Patterson, Henry Carter %G English %T Henry Carter Patterson papers 1929-1972, undated %U http://www2.hsp.org/collections/Balch%20manuscript_guide/html/patterson.html %X This collection contains some Xerox copies as well as the original correspondence of Henry C. Patterson, most of which is typescript. Topics include African American education in America (solicitations for funds for Lincoln University in Pennsylvania), Patterson's urgings for integration of the United States Navy, and his support for John F. Kennedy's civil rights stand. Also featured is personal correspondence with Whittaker Chambers in which Patterson applauds Chambers's courage in the Alger Hiss Case. The Patterson Collection also houses correspondence with and about Vice-President Richard M. Nixon (1953-1960) regarding political matters, the future of the Republican Party, and the career of Harold Stassen. There is also correspondence between Patterson and Wendell Wilkie in which Patterson advises Wilkie on how to win the African American vote. Patterson's papers also include those generated during his years of service with the War Relocation Authority (1943-1948) in which he expresses his support for the compensation of Japanese Americans.